[plug] Inconsistent install results

[Leon Brooks]

stephen smart wrote:
> 
> very strange, I did another install this time using another Red Hat 6 cd that
> came with a book I brought "Harold Davis Red Hat Linux 6" all the connection
> problems and applications locking up on me have gone. I did the install exactly
> the same as the one I did with the cd that came with the pocket book.
> a bit weird, but Im happy.

One thing that can cause this is having a CD drive set to IDE slave with
no master on the same buss. Sometimes it seems to work, but it can
silently drop stuff in the bin, like pieces of RPMs, for example...